A two- day National Board meeting of National Action and Coordination Group for Ending Violence against Children (NACG-EVAC), India and the South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children (SAIEVAC) held here concluded with a clarion call for collective action by Governments, civil society groups and all other stakeholders to end violence against children.
The SAIEVAC is the inter-Governmental apex body of SAARC for ensuring child protection in South Asia. The meeting was attended by the National Board members from different parts of the country.
The office bearer election of the NACG –EVAC was also held. Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, child rights activist and chairman of Odisha Alliance for Child Rights and secretary of PECUC, Odisha, was unanimously elected as the chairperson of the NACG-EVAC ,India.
D Roshan Kumar, chief functionary of SEEDS, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh and Sanjay Gupta, chief functionary, CHETNA, New Delhi, were elected as vice-chairpersons. Sanjay Mishra ,head of BKS and former member of Jharkhand State Commission for Child Rights continued to be the treasurer.
Prakash Rath of OLS from Odisha is also in the eleven-member executive committee.